French metalcore outfit Betraying The Martyrs have announced their new vocalist, Rui Martins, and shared a brand new single. You can view the official music video for the single, titled “Black Hole” below.
Martins‘ arrival comes some time after the announcement earlier this year that former vocalist Aaron Matts would be departing the group in favour of their recently formed label mates ten56. Further, “Black Hole” is the first taste of brand new material from Betraying The Martyrs since their 2019 effort, Rapture, and is the first piece of music the group have released under their brand new label, Out Of Line.
Speaking on the single, the group shared “This brand new song depicts how a toxic relationship can imprison and deceive someone, eventually going through all the phases that one usually has to go through, to realise what is wrong and finally be set free. It doesn’t matter how hard one tries if the other person is unwilling to improve themselves and their mutual relationship. To suffer is to learn, but to also kill a part of us. The protagonist is reborn at the end, but he paid a high price, and the scars are visible.”
Further, discussing the band’s philosophy, as well as Rui Martins‘ contributions, the band shared “We definitely upgraded to BTM 2.0! Most of us are perfectionists about our own art, so we’re super stoked and excited to have people’s opinion and reactions about this new track. We’re well aware that changing the frontman can be a little tricky sometimes (even if bands like Northlane, Chelsea Grin, and Lorna Shore showed us that it could be very successful,) but we’re very confident Rui’s the perfect fit, and we hope people will welcome our new recruit with open arms and show him the support he deserves. Rui‘s abilities will definitely take things to a whole new level, as he has a great approach for both the heavy side and the more melodic part of our songwriting.
“Rui knows perfectly what BTM was and also is now in 2021. He has a great vision of what BTM fans expect and also where we want to go. Rui is bringing a lot of great ideas for his vocals, lyric-wise, melody-wise… and his vocal range is incredible: he can go from super heavy guttural screams to high pitched beautiful clean vocals; it’s a real pleasure to be able to work with someone so talented, and we’re definitely planning on using his range to its maximum potential to serve BTM‘s upcoming music.”
“Black Hole” is available now via Out of Line, and you can purchase/stream the single here. For all things Betraying The Martyrs, metalcore and music in general, keep it locked on Boolin Tunes.